I've been through a rock tumbler of various dogmas during my life. I kind of settled on "I can see me in a mirror, but can never look at myself directly through my own eyes".

I know what's going on in my head; what I'm thinking; my intentions at any given moment. "Slow back swing, eyes on the ball, full follow through."

That's the essence of soul to me, and carries on, in a body or not. There's a spiritual light that guides that journey.